Blue_Lion wrote:eliakon wrote:I would say the answer on psionics from the astral is easy.
Sensitive Powers are almost always allowed as per the word "generally"
Other powers may or may not be, again as per the word "generally".
Consult your individual GM for the specific rulings for your particular game.
Seriously that's it.
The sentence is qualified with a variable (generally) meaning that there is no one hard and fast specific way to interpret it because the sentence itself has an undefined qualifier in it. As such you are literally required to have an additional source of authority provide the needed definition...and as there is no published source the only extant one is the individual game master of each individual game. Meaning that the definition of what powers can be used from the Astral Plane are up to each GM and will vary from GM to GM and likely from game to game.
It says- They can generally only affect the physical world by sensitive powers. Can and only are the source of a limit. That basically means can usually (not taking in account specifics and acceptations) only...
So it is not per the word generally that makes sensitive always affect the physical plain but the can affect the physical world with.
Note: per the previous sentence any power that does not require touch can be used but when combined with this one most would only affect other astral bodies.
You can house rule it but the book is saying that can usually only affect the material plane with sensitive powers.
Generally means usually-so we know typically non-sensitive powers should not work. Examples of these exemptions from earlier books have been brought up, that means we know they have told use cases that powers other sensitive being used by astral bodies to affect the physical plane. So it would seam to be logical from the game as a whole they will tell us when a non-sensitive power works by default canon.
The word generally seams to allow for pre-existing exemptions to still be valid. That is a level of thoughtfulness not normally seen in PB rule changes.
The word generally does not completely negate or even typically negate limiters attached to it, it just acknowledges existence of possible exceptions. But for the most part only sensitive powers should work and non-sensitive powers working are an acceptation not the rule.
No, really, trying to limit them to just sensitive powers is the house rule. Trying to claim that using any non-sensitive powers is an exception is a house rule. The actual rule simply points to sensitive powers as being most commonly used it doesn't limit usage to sensitive powers with exceptions. As written you've use of those powers that don't require a physical body to function (which includes powers that require making physical contact by touching someone), naturally given the nature of sensitive powers they'd still mostly be available while most physical wouldn't because you've no body for them to work on hence the need to look at the power to see if it meets the criteria of not requiring a physical body or making physical contact.